North Sea

The ’Offshore Support Vessel of the Year Award’ for 2012 was won by North Sea Shipping’s ’North Sea Giant’, built to DNV class at the Metalships & Docks shipyard in Vigo, Spain. The North Sea Giant is considered to be the largest offshore vessel of this type ever built, with an overall length of 156m, beam of 30m and installed power of more than 22MW. The vessel was given the prize for her innovative features, which include advanced dynamic positioning (DP) capability for DP operations based on a high r